Kevin Gowen wrote:
> Ron Hitler Barrassi wrote:
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>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>> Ron Hitler Barrassi wrote:
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>>>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>>>> Ron Hitler Barrassi wrote:
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>>>>>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
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>>>>>>> Ernest Schaal wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> in article apjb111jq9usblq1742go3h6duj9ihfj19@4ax.com, Michael 
>>>>>>>> Cash at
>>>>>>>> mikecash@buggerallspammers.com wrote on 2/18/05 8:20 PM:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:11:53 +0900, Ernest Schaal
>>>>>>>>> <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> brought down from the Mount tablets
>>>>>>>>> inscribed:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Frankly, when I read your message about why you stay in Japan, 
>>>>>>>>>> I felt sorry
>>>>>>>>>> for you. Stasis is not a fun reason to stay here.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I meant it as an answer as to why Rev. Ed is still here.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> But when you come right down to it, being settled in any location
>>>>>>>>> involves stasis. So what does it matter whether stasis has 
>>>>>>>>> overtaken
>>>>>>>>> me here or elsewhere? I'm just as content right where I am 
>>>>>>>>> right now
>>>>>>>>> as I imagine I would be anywhere else.
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sorry if I read too much into your answer. Stasis involves 
>>>>>>>> conflicting
>>>>>>>> forces, and I took it to mean that you were caught in the middle 
>>>>>>>> of those
>>>>>>>> conflicting forces.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You are in stasis most of the time. As you sit in your chair, it 
>>>>>>> is pushing up against you with the exact same force with which 
>>>>>>> gravity pulls you down.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are you a good or even moderately competent lawyer? I certainly 
>>>>>> hope so.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry that I can't write a longer reply, but my chair is pushing up 
>>>>> against me with a force greater than that of gravity's pull upon 
>>>>> me, so I am slowly drifting away from my keyboard into the 
>>>>> strato.......
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'M SHOUTING SO YOU CAN HEAR ME.
>>>>
>>>> AS THE CHAIR WAS PUSHING WITH A FORCE THEN IT HAS PROBABLY NOW 
>>>> EXPLODED. 
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>>>
>>>
>>> No, the chair is remarkably intact and continues to push up against 
>>> me with a force that is a function of my mass times the acceleration 
>>> of gravity.
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>>
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>> Can you measure this "force" with a forcographer?
> 
> 
> I have no idea what a "forcographer" is,

Maybe you know it as a forcometer.

> but this force could be 
> measured with a bathroom scale that can be purchased in any number of 
> retail outlets. Such devices measure forces, you see.

no, that would measure the force exerted by you, not the chair.

> 
>> (I would hate to multuply your mass by *anything*)
> 
> 
> Thou shalt not multuply extra entities unnecessarily.
> 

sorry about that, I was speaking New Zealanderish.